EXPERIMENTAL HUMANITIES LAB
Fritz Breithaupt
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Fritz Breithaupt, Das narrative Gehirn. Was Neuronen erzählen [The Narrative Brain: What Neurons Tell--English title forthcoming] (spring 2022, Suhrkamp Verlag)
Fritz Breithaupt, The Dark Sides of Empathy Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 2019.
(here is link for an NPR Interview about the book)
German Edition: Die dunklen Seiten der Empathie, Berlin: Suhrkamp (stw 2196), February 2017. 2nd. ed, February 2017; 3rd ed. May 2017. [Korean edition, 2019; other languages forthcoming]
Fritz Breithaupt, Kultur der Ausrede. Eine Narrationstheorie [Culture of Excuse. A Theory of Narrative], Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag (stw 2001), 2012.
Claudia Breger and Fritz Breithaupt, Eds. Empathie und Narration, Freiburg: Rombach, 2010
Fritz Breithaupt, Kulturen der Empathie, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag (stw 1906), 2009; 207 pages. 5th edition, 2018.
Spanish version: Culturas de la Empatía, rev. Spanish version with new chapter:, Katz Editores 2011.
Fritz Breithaupt, Der Ich-Effekt des Geldes: Zur Geschichte einer Legitimationsfigur [The Ego-Effect of Money: On the History of a Figure of Legitimation], Frankfurt: Fischer Verlag, 2008.
Fritz Breithaupt, Jenseits der Bilder - Goethes Politik der Wahrnehmung
[Beyond Images – Goethe’s Politics of Perception], Eds. Gerhard Neumann and Günter Schnitzler, Rombach: Freiburg, 2000.
Articles (since 2011)
2023
Jack He, Fritz Breithaupt, Sandra Kübler, & Thomas Hills. Quantifying the retention of emotions across story retellings. Nature: Scientific Reports 13, 2448 (2023). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-29178-8
Breithaupt, F., Hicks, M., Hiskes, B., & Lagrange, V. High-stakes decisions do not require narrative conviction but narrative flexibility. Forthcoming in: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Commentary.
2022
Breithaupt, Fritz, Binyan Li, and John K. Kruschke. "Serial reproduction of narratives preserves emotional appraisals." Cognition and Emotion 1 (2022): 1-21. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10.1080/02699931.2022.2031906?needAccess=true
Hiskes, B., Hicks, M., Evola, S., Kincaid, C. & Breithaupt, F. Multiversionality: Considering multiple possibilities in the processing of narratives. Review of Philosophy and Psycholgy (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-022-00621-5
Claire Woodward, Ben Hiskes, Fritz Breihaupt, “Victimization Triggers Spontaneous Side-Taking in Narratives” (2022, under review)
Fritz Breithaupt, “Weaponizing Vulnerability: Serial Reproduction of Narratives and the Grimm Fairy Tales,” (2022, under review)
Konrath, S., Davis, M., Breithaupt, F., & Martingano, A.J. The kids are all right: The decline, and rise, of kindness in American young adults. (2022, under review)
Jack He, Fritz Breithaupt, Sandra Kübler, & Thomas Hills. Quantifying the retention of emotions across story retellings. (2022, under review)
2021
Johan Bollen, Marijn ten Thij, Fritz Breithaupt, Alexander T. J. Barron, Lauren Rutter, Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, and Marten Scheffer, “A surge of cognitive distortions in societal language,” PNAS 2021 July 27.https://www.pnas.org/content/118/30/e2102061118
Maria Triantafyllopoulos, Margaret Schnabel, Binyan Li, Fritz Breithaupt, “Fact or Fiction. No Effect of Genre Expectation on Text Comprehension in the Digital Era,” forthcoming at Discourse Processes (2021).
Fritz Breithaupt, “Der moralische Code der Narration bei Gottfried Keller,” forthcoming in Frauke Berndt (Ed.), Gottfried Keller als Erzähler, Fink Verlag, 2021.
2019
Victoria LaGrange, Benjamin Hiskes, Claire Woodward, Binyan Li, and Fritz Breithaupt, “Opting for Violence and then Enjoying it”, PLOS ONE (Dec. 2019).
Fritz Breithaupt, „What is an Event for Goethe?,” Goethe Yearbook 23 (2019), 41-49.
Fritz Breithaupt „Staunen als Belohnung der Neugier. Wunder, Überraschung und Frage in narrativer Hinsicht“, in Myreille Schneider, Nicola Gess and Hugues Marchal, Eds. Poetiken des Staunens: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2019.
Fritz Breithaupt, „Die Bühne als Geburtsort kollektiver Empathie. Zur Genese der Bewusstseinsmobilität,“ in Urs Breitenstein, Ed., Empathie: Individuel und kollektiv. Basel: Schwabe Verlag 2019, 129-146.
Fritz Breithaupt, „Diskursanalyse und Wissenpoetik,“ in: Joseph Vogl, Ed., Handbuch für Literatur und Ökonomie, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019, 80-89.
2018
Fritz Breithaupt, Binyan Li, Torrin Liddell, Eleanor Brower, & Sarah Whaley, “Fact vs. Affect in the Telephone Game: All Levels of Surprise are Retold with High Accuracy, Even Independently of Facts,” Frontiers in Psychology 9 (2018), 2210.
Fritz Breithaupt, “Empathy and Aesthetics,” Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft (ZÄK) 63/1 (2018), 45-60. LINK
Fritz Breithaupt, „The Bad Things we Do with Empathy,“ in: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 43.2 (2018): 166-174.
Fritz Breithaupt, “Narrative der Verwundbarkeit. Das Märchen in der Aufklärung,” in: Frauke Berndt & Daniel Fulda, Eds., Die Erzählung der Aufklärung, Hamburg: Meiners Verlag, 2018, 71-91.
Fritz Breithaupt, “Poetizität der Gefühle,“ in: Ralf Simon, Ed., Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Poetik und Poetizität, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018, 491-98.
2017
Fritz Breithaupt, *“How Money Legitimizes Inequality,” in: Yearbook for Comparative Literature 60 (2014) [2017], 55-65.
Martin Kolmar und Fritz Breihaupt, “Postfaktische Autoritäten”, in: Kursbuch, March 2017, 17-28.
2016
Andrew Hamilton and Fritz Breithaupt, “These Things Called Event: Toward a Unified Narrative Theory of Events,” in: Sprache und Datenverarbeitung (SDV) 37 (2013), 65-87. [2016]
2015
Fritz Breithaupt, „Die einfache Form der Narration,“ in: Albrecht Koschorke, Ed., Komplexität und Einfachheit. DFG Kolloquium 2015, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2017, S. 104-125.
Fritz Breithaupt, Eleanor Brower, Sarah Whaley, “Optimal Eventfulness of Narratives,” in: CMN 2015 (computer models of narrative).
Fritz Breithaupt „Why Empathy is not the Best Basis for Humanitarianism,” Global Cooperation Research Papers (2015).
Fritz Breithaupt, “Empathic Sadism. How Readers Get Implicated,” in: Lisa Zunshine, Ed., Oxford Handbook for Cognitive Literary Studies, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2015, 440-462.
Fritz Breithaupt, “Empathy for Empathy’s Sake: Aesthetics and Empathic Sadism,” in: Aleida Assmann and Ines Detmers, Eds. Empathy and its Limits. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Fritz Breithaupt, “Goethes Gewissen,” in: Simon Bunke & Katerina Mihayalova, Eds. Gewissen. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf das 18. Jahrhundert, (Würzburg: K & N, 2015) 135-148.
2014
Fritz Breithaupt, “Goethe’s Conscience,” in Modern Language Notes (MLN), April 2014, 549-562.
Fritz Breithaupt, “Kein Alibi, keine Ausrede – Siegfried Kracauer und der Tod des kriminellen Subjekts,“ in Wolfram Eilenberger, Ed., Der Tatort und die Philosophie, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta. 2014, 127-143.
Fritz Beithaupt, “Vom Ich-Zwang zum Ausreden-Ich,” in: Dieter Thomä, Ed., Das Ich und sein Image, Transcript: Bielefeld, 2014, 28-44.
2013
Fritz Breithaupt, Kevin M. Gardner, John K. Kruschke, Torrin M. Liddell, and Samuel Zorowitz (2013), “The Disappearance of Moral Choice in Serially Reproduced Narratives”, in: Mark A. Finlayson Bernhard Fisseni, Benedikt Löwe Jan Christoph Meister, Eds., 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative, Saarbrücken: Dagstuhl Publishing, pages 37-44.
Fritz Breithaupt, “Mignon’s Poem: Song or Narration?” in: Goethe-Yearbook 2013, 79-89.
2012
Fritz Breithaupt, “A Three-Person Model of Empathy” in: Emotion Review 4 (January 2012), 84-91.
Fritz Breithaupt, “Das romantische Gewissen,” in: Klaus Viehweg und Martin Winkler, Eds. Die Aktualität der Romantik, Frankfurt, New York 2012.
Fritz Breithaupt, “Von Gott gerufen werden: Narration und Ausrede,” in: Stefan Börnchen, Georg Mein, Martin Roussel, Eds., Namen, Ding, Referenzen, München 2012, 77-90.
2011
Fritz Breithaupt, “The Birth of Narrative from the Spirit of the Excuse. A Speculation,” in: Poetics Today 32 (spring 2011), 107-128.
Fritz Breithaupt, “Narcissus, the Self, and Empathy. The Paradox of Modern Literature”, in: Alexander Mathäs, Ed. Narcissism in the Eighteenth Century, Bucknell University Press, 2011, 39-60.
Fritz Breithaupt, “Machines of Turning Actions into Reactions: The Case of the German Novella,” in European Romantic Review 21 (2010), 601-614. Republished in: Romanticism and Modernity, Thomas Pfau and Robert Mitchell, eds., London: Taylor & Francis, 2011.
Fritz Breithaupt, “How is Empathy Possible? Four Models,” in: Paula Leverage, Howard Mancing, Richard Schweickert, Jennifer Marston William, Eds., Theory of Mind and Literature, West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2011, 273-288.